Howard Lutnick | All-In in DC!

Podcast Notes Playlist: Business

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Key Takeaways

• “The key is to stop sending money to the wrong place so that we can always defend sending money to the right place.” – Howard Lutnick
• If Howard balances the budget, Trump agrees to waive all income tax for people who make less than $150,000 per year
• About $1 trillion per year can be saved by cutting government waste, fraud, and abuse; this is DOGE’s target – and it is Howard’s job to generate $1 trillion in exogenous new revenues for the government
• There is no such thing as free and fair trade: Inflation comes from printing more money, not from tariffs; the strategy is to put tariffs on things that will reshore
• Establishing the External Revenue Service: The institutions and infrastructure of the United States are not being optimally monetized
  • What is the market value of American citizenship?
  • If Nvidia is worth $3 trillion, how much is the American legal system worth?
  • Why are we not mining our valuable resources?
  • Are there creative and productive ways to monetize federal lands?
• The United States is the greatest customer in the world; it should benefit from that reality when it does business with other nations or corporations
  • Example: Hold stock warrants in the sovereign wealth fund so the American people benefit when the US does a business deal
  • Capital appreciation in the sovereign wealth fund will be used to offset the nation’s debt
• “Our objective is to smash down the Internal Revenue Service and change America.” – Lutnick

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(0:00) Chamath and Friedberg welcome Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick!

(1:10) Howard describes his 30+ year relationship with President Trump and his road from business to politics

(14:44) Running Trump's transition team, DOGE origin story, what it's like working for Trump

(38:01) Balancing the budget and fixing GDP

(52:21) Tariff history and strategy, global trade

(1:10:34) Trump Cards, building better government software, AI thoughts

(1:22:49) Sovereign Wealth Fund strategy

(1:37:16) How his family reacted to his new role

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